The fall of the Yukos shares on Tuesday afternoon stopped after the court decision on tax recovery in the amount of 99.4 billion rubles, as well as the company's intentions to challenge the decision of the court of appeal.

The European Union allocates four million euros to improve the system of arbitration vessels of Russia. The presentation of the new project of the European Commission, aimed at supporting Russian arbitration courts, took place on Tuesday in Moscow. The project is financed by the EU-Tasis program and is designed for 34 months.

23-year-old Australian tennis player Llatyon Hughitt entered the fourth round of the UK Open Tennis Championship, having outplayed the Spaniard Carlos Moyi. According to RIA Novosti, Hughitt easily won the first two sets 6: 4, 6: 2, but then his experienced opponent managed to intercept the initiative, diversified his game and managed to take the third set with a score of 6: 4.

The grouping of Iraqi resistance “Unity and Jihad”, which is headed by Abu Musab Az-Zarkavi, one of the leading extremists of Al-Qaeda, freed three Turks taken into hostage in early June. The Turkish government confirmed the data on the release of its citizens, reports Reuters with reference to Al Jazeera.

Lamantin operations, carried out last weekend, preceded 15 months of painstaking work of Colombian and North American investigators. Having arrested 70 people in the six countries of the continent - from Canada to the Bahamas - the Bogota police came to the conclusion that she managed to eliminate the "Central Caribbean", according to which 94 tons of cocaine were delivered annually in the United States.

Pope John Pavel II highly appreciated the development of inter -church relations and interfaith consent in Ukraine. He stated this at a meeting with the Ukrainian delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Tabachnik, the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers said today with reference to the service of Deputy Prime Minister, Interfax reports. Dmitry Tabachnik informed the head of the Vatican about how religious freedom is ensured in Ukraine.

The British musician David Bowie in Germany was in the hospital with a pinches of the nerve. I had to cancel his performance. On Friday, Bowie took part in the Hurricane festival in the German city of Sheepel. However, due to the acute pain in his shoulder, he was hospitalized, reports the Air Force . Bowie was left in the hospital at night, and he could not take part in the SouthSide festival in the city of Neuhausen-on-Ek in the south of Germany.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday adopted the General Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Muhammad al-Baradei. This is the second meeting of the head of the Russian state with the head of the IAEA. In the meeting, held at the residence of the President of the Russian Federation Novo-Ogravo, is attended by the head of the Federal Agency for Atomic Energy Alexander Rumyantsev.

In an interview with DW-World radio, the famous German analyst Hinz Timmermann from the Science and Politics Fund said that, in his opinion, Moscow has several people who in the near future can be replaced by President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. Hinz Timmermann has a reputation as an objective and reasonable expert.

Employees of the Office for Crime Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Kirovograd region stopped the activities of a criminal group, on the account of which more than a dozen facts of the sale of women into sexual slavery abroad, Interfax reports.

At one of the Japanese resorts of Kinugav in the prefecture of Totigi, you can become a geisha for a day. The attraction organized by the Geish association gained unprecedented popularity among visitors to hot springs located in this area. In just 7.5 thousand yen (about $ 60), professional geishas in two hours create an adequate appearance of the representative of their ancient profession in those who wish.

On June 30, an exhibition of modern Belarusian art dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from Nazi invaders will open in the Minsk Palace of Art. On Tuesday, on the eve of the opening, the Art Council, led by the People's Artist of Belarus, Viktor Gromyko, took the works proposed by artists - professionals and amateurs. The selection criterion was one - the artistic level of works, says the Belarusian Radio Liberty Service . Nevertheless, it was not without a scandal.

The Chairman of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Masud Barzani, said in an interview with the Arab newspaper Al-Hayat that Kurdistan (a number of areas in the north of Iraq, most of which make up the Kurds) will separate from Iraq if the principle of federalism is ignored, RIA Novosti reports.

In Moscow and the Moscow Region from 19:15 to 22:00, thunderstorms are expected. An emergency warning was received on Tuesday evening from the Hydrometeorological Bureau of Moscow and the Moscow Region. From the middle of the week, weather forecasters predict a slight decrease in temperature: in the daytime - up to 19-21 degrees above zero, at night - 12-16 degrees of heat, Interfax reports.

Chuudhri Shujat Khussain on Tuesday is elected new Prime Minister of Pakistan. The Pakistan Parliament of 190 supported the candidacy of the President of the ruling Pakistani Muslim League (PML) Chuodhri Shujat Khussein for the post of new prime minister of the country. The former prime minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali, who was resigned, suggested Hussein as his successor, RIA Novosti reports.